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DUMPING BODY FOR VEHICLES.

No. 539,093. Patented May 14, 1895.

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A. P. STEPHENSON. DUMPING BODY FOR VBHIGLES.

No. 539,093. w Patented May 14, 1895.

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U ITED ST TES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR P. STEPHENSON, OF LEBANON, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES S. WOOD, OF SAME PLACE.

DUMPlNG-BODYL. FOR VEHICLES;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 539,093, dated May 14, 1895.

Application filed March 23, 1895-; $erial No. 542,972. (No model.) i

To all whom it concern.- recessed and straddling the horizontal bars Be it known that I, ARTHUR P. STEPHEN- 9, and the upper terminals of the inclined SON, a citizen of the United States, residing braces are secured to the inner faces of the at Lebanon, in the county of Boone and State 1 ends 3 of the body adjacent to the upper edges 55 5 of Indiana, have invented a new and useful I thereof. The inclined end boards are located Dumping-Body for Vehicles, of which the folbetween the braces and the sides 2 of the lowing is aspecification. 7 body, and are hinged by transverse pintles The object of the present invention is to 11, extending from one side of the body to the improve the construction of dumping bodies other, and located below the centers of the 60 I for vehicles, and to provide a simple and efend boards 6. The end boards are supported ficient one adapted to be mounted on the orin an inclined position by the bottom boards dinary construction of running gear, and ca- 4 and 5, and have their lower ends normally pable in dumping, of protecting the reach resting upon the terminals of the bottom and the axles from contact with materials, to boards, and as soon as the latter are released, 65

I5 prevent any liability of the running gear be the weight of the contents of the body swings inginjuredin carrying heavysubstances, also the bottom boards downward and frees the to avoid grain and like material from 0011- lower ends of the end boards and causes the tacting with the running gear. same to tilt, the upper portions of the end The invention consists in the construction boards 6 swinging inward, and the lower por- 7o and novel combination and arrangement of tions outward. This action is automatic and parts, hereinafter fully described, illustrated the tilting of the end boards 6, is limited by in the accompanying drawings, and pointed stops 13, arranged on the inner faces of the out in the claims hereto appended. side boards 2, adjacent to the lower edges In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective thereof and disposed in rear of the lower ends 75 I view of a dumping-body for vehicles conof the tilting end boards.

structed in accordance with this invention. When the end boards tilt in dumping, they Fig. 2 is a reverse plan view ofthe same. Fig. form shields for the front and rear axles, and 3 is a transverse sectional view, the bottom theinner pair of bottom boards tswing downboards being shown closed in full lines and Ward at the sides of the reach of the running 80 open in dotted lines. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal gear, and prevent the material coming in consectional view, the bottom boards being open. tact with the same.

Like numerals of reference indicate corre- The bottom boards are maintained in a norsponding parts in all the figures of the draw- ,mal position, horizontally, by a shaft14, jourings. naled in suitable bearings of the upper edges 85 1 designates a dumping body, which is of the sides of the body and connected by adapted to be applied to all kinds of vehicles; chains 15 and 16 with the bottom boards, and and which is composed of sides 2, and ends 3, the shaft is held against accidental rotation and provided with hinged bottom boards 4 by a pawl 17, pivotedto the body, and 'a and 5, and having pivoted or hinged inclined ratchet wheel 18, mounted on the Windlass o 40 end boards 6. shaft. The pawl is pivoted intermediate of The bottom boards 4 and 5, are arranged its ends and operates as a lever and requires in pairs. The outer ones 5, are hinged to the but a small amount of force to throw it out of lower edges of the sides 2, of the body at 7, engagement. The chains 15, have their upand the inner ones are attached by hinges 8, per ends attached to the Windlass shaft and 5 to central longitudinally disposed horizontal the .chains 14, are secured intermediate of bars 9, forming a brace for the wagon body. their ends to the lower terminals of the chains The upper edges of the horizontal bars 9 are 15, and have their ends secured to the bottom oppositely beveled to direct the material to boards. This arrangement permits the boteither side of it. tom boards to readily separate when swingtoo The body is supported at its ends by inclined ing downward.

braces 10, having their lower ends notched or It will be seen that the dumping body is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, and that as soon as the chains are released by throwing the pawl out of engagement with the ratchet Wheel, the dumping is automatic, and that the hinged bottom boards and tilting end boards form shields to protect the running gear and to prevent the material from coming in contact therewith. It will also be seen that the body is applicable to all kinds of vehicles and may be employed as a car body, if desired.

Changes in the form, proportion, and the minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from the principle or sacrificing any of the advantages of this invention.

\Vhat I claim is- 1. In adnmping body, the combination with sides and ends, of tilting end boards mounted at the ends of the body and arranged at an inclination, the hinged bottom boards nor-, mally arranged horizontally and supportingthe lower ends of the tilting end boards and maintaining the same in an inclined posit-ion,

the lower edges of the ends, inclined braces extending from the horizontal bar to the upper edges of the ends, the tilting end boards arranged in pairs at the ends of the body and located at opposite sides of the braces, the swinging bottom boards arranged in pairs and hinged to the sides and to the horizontal bar and supporting the lower ends of the tilting end boards and maintaining the same in a horizontal position, and means for supporting the bottom boards in a horizontal position, substantially as described.

3. In a dumping body, the combination with sides and ends, of the tilting end boards arranged in pairs, the hinged bottom boards arranged in pairs and supporting the lower ends of the tilting end boards, stops mounted on the body and arranged in rear of the lower ends of the tilting boards and limiting the movement thereof, a Windlass shaft disposed transversely of the body, and chains connected with the bottom boards and the shaft, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aifixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

ARTHUR P. STEPHENSON.

Witnesses:

DANIEL l3. BANTER, REED HOLLOMAN. 

